The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware

wildfrontiersman writes "A New York Times editorial by Brent Staples, The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware on the Web, laments 'The story of technology is the story of noble aspirations overtaken by a hard-core huckster reality. This process is on vivid display in the debate about electronic junk mail, which makes up more than half of all the e-mail that travels on the Internet.' He criticizes the new spam law, the lack of attention to spyware and how it threatens our beloved internet."

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Age-Old Solutions

[Detritus]

At least for the moment, a medium that was hailed as the ultimate venue for education and self-improvement is mired in the age-old conflict between the salesman who wants his foot in the door, no matter what, and the angry person who wants nothing more than to be left alone.

Both problems, the spammer and the salesman, can be solved with the use of a good 12-gauge shotgun.

Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

Re:Boring.

[Anonymous Coward]

For a while I was karmawhoring NYTimes links but with "partner=SLASHDOTSUCKS". Ahh, the good old days...

Re:One way to solve it - stop buying

[Deadstick]

There are a variety of ways of dealing with this detritus, the easiest one is make it a social stigma to admit to buying anything from spam.

-Hey, nice pecker stretcher, and those pictures of the guy with the goat are really cool. Where'd you get 'em?

-I ordered them from a spam ad.

-You PIG!!!

rj

Re:I pity no one

[jawtheshark]

As said somewhere else: I ask a case of beer for every intervetion. I never run out of beer ;-)